Quotes About Perseverance

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.